[ANSTHRLD] Website functionality

[Kathleen O'Brien]

On 5/30/2012 11:12 AM, Marie de Blois wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Vyolante Oporto<vyolante at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Is there a way to upload our old letters to our "Garden" on Oscar?
>
> As far as I know, not really, no.
>
> I've talked with Istvan about this (for the Outlands' archive).  He
> told me that he has some stub code (aka 'started a long time ago and
> never finished') for importing stuff.  The catch is that the file you
> feed such an importer has to be normalized/marked up/delimited in some
> way so that the importer knows what parts are what.  Given that this
> would require a whole LOT of manual manipulation of the old letters
> into whatever the file format would be, we never finished hashing out
> the details.
>
> Er, if you meant just uploading the PDFs - there's no mechanism in
> OSCAR for that either.

How about something similar to how I'm uploading image files for the old 
LoIs/LoCs?  Is there any reason we couldn't do something similar for 
uploading pdf files?

So, I'm not really talking "importing" as much as "uploading".

Mari